Eileen Le Han
Biographic Data
| ID | 4975138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eileen Le Han |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eileen |
| FAMILY NAME | Le Han |
| SIGNATURE | LE HAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3443-4240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Identifying Topics Around Nicotine Gum
Background Nicotine gum products from brands like Lucy and Rogue are relatively new arrivals to the tobacco marketplace. While studies of correlates of nicotine gum use are in their nascent stage, data from social media can be used to stay abreast of user experiences with novel tobacco products. This study leveraged machine learning to identify topics of Twitter posts about nicotine gum from the year 2022.Methods Twitter data was collected using …
Building an analytical framework for tobacco-related information on social media
This study offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing tobacco-related information on social media, emphasizing key issues in policy debates and the presence of conspiracy narratives. This framework can inform the design of interventions for less informed populations and enhance data annotation for machine learning tasks
Tobacco industry influence on breast cancer research, policy and public opinion
The CTR and TI Records are a rich source of documents related to tobacco industry efforts to influence breast cancer research, policy and public opinion away from any aetiologic relationship between tobacco use and breast cancer
GitHub as a collaborative curation platform for memory projects of Covid-19 in China
This study looks at online collaborative memory projects on GitHub, all of which started amid China’s war on the then unknown corona virus in early 2020 and curated stories from Chinese language social media, news outlets, and official websites. It finds that GitHub enables a collaborative yet centralized archiving and curation workflow, and each of the three projects present unique ways the COVID-19 memories can be preserved. Three key events – …
Tobacco, nicotine and counter-marketing promotions using Instagram’s branded content tool
Despite attempts at self-regulation, paid partnership posts promoting tobacco and nicotine products are present on Instagram, especially posts promoting venues and events that feature tobacco and nicotine use. Self-regulation of this content shows limited success, suggesting a need for federal oversight and additional counter-marketing in social media settings
Weibo and the making of Chinese networked publics
Through the analysis of the online discourses about Weibo in the past and present, this article examines how the platform has taken part in the shaping of Chinese networked publics and public participation as it has been undergoing three stages of development itself: collective witness, ideological contention, and networks of expertise. The three stages reflect a major transformation of social media and digital culture in China, from the civic-mi…
Striving to be Pure
This paper describes the features of grassroots philanthropy as viewed by the participants. Using content analysis, we show that while the mainstream discourse focuses on efficiency, accountability, and professionalism, the grassroots discourse focuses on the individual aspects, viewing philanthropy as small good deeds, a personal spiritual journey, and something that brings happiness. To avoid making this personal journey impure or less happy, t…
Journalism and mnemonic practices in Chinese social media
This study examines how collective memories of a public event, along with various journalistic practices, take shape in social media as the event develops. By analyzing messages posted during the first 8 days after a 23 July 2011 high-speed train collision accident in China on Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, this study finds three types of mnemonic practices on this platform: online commemoration, memory accumulation, and the fi…
Global and Local
Collective memory is global in scope with global flows of information and transnational mobility of people, upon which global Chinese identities are built. The global connectivity of Weibo has brought Chinese-speaking users together, and the collective efforts to circumvent the Great Firewall have also allowed the sharing of forbidden or highly censored contents. However, global connectivity has also provided opportunities for the rise of nationa…
Remembering Weibo in China’s Social Transition
This chapter analyzes emerging trends that led Weibo to a new phase, one of them being state control of social media platforms intensifying and gaining in sophistication, another being the rise of competing platforms. It is now much easier for the authorities to directly participate in discussions and shut down undesirable opinions on Weibo, while competition from other platforms has siphoned off a significant portion of Weibo’s user base. As Wei…
Conclusion
This book has captured the era of Weibo when it was considered primarily to be a platform for journalism. To its credit, Weibo has significantly broadened the scope of journalism in China. It has provided many opportunities for journalists, media professionals, and some media outlets to establish their cultural authorities over emerging public events, which is mainly reflected in the way that collective memories of these events are formed and ser…
Past and Present
This chapter mainly examines how the past is made use of in the service of the present in the age of social media. Two types of “past” have been analyzed in relation to the present on Weibo: historical events and the ongoing news events that fade quickly from public attention. Weibo provides a space that invites both elite and grassroots users rewriting and reusing of the remote past. Current news events are also explained in the context of unres…
“Universal Values” and “Chinese Characteristics”
This chapter expands on the three previous chapters’ findings: how the three sets of social tensions orchestrate collective remembering, in the service of Chinese modernity debate. It starts with the Southern Weekend incident, an online and offline protest initiated by journalists, which pushed the modernity debate to the foreground of Weibo. Chinese modernity is a product of revisiting and reusing the sources of the past on a global scale, since…
Weibo and Memory
This chapter provides a detailed analysis of one specific event, a defining moment of Weibo as an event-oriented social media platform that also serves the making of collective memory: a high-speed train accident near Wenzhou in southeast China on July 23, 2011. The analytical framework—three axes of social tension in the dynamics of social media, namely control and resistance, past and present, and global and local—is introduced through a detail…
Control and Resistance
This chapter focuses on how the state control of media and various ways of resistance on Weibo have shaped the meanings of public events, and effectively utilized collective remembering to manipulate public opinion, escalating the contention over remembering and forgetting. This chapter captures the changing hierarchy of cultural authority in interpreting an event and organizing collective remembrance. Personalized narratives of public events, in…
Micro-blogging Memories
This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China
Micro-blogging Memories
This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China
Journalism and mnemonic practices in Chinese social media
This study examines how collective memories of a public event, along with various journalistic practices, take shape in social media as the event develops. By analyzing messages posted during the first 8 days after a 23 July 2011 high-speed train collision accident in China on Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, this study finds three types of mnemonic practices on this platform: online commemoration, memory accumulation, and the fi…
Weibo and the making of Chinese networked publics
Through the analysis of the online discourses about Weibo in the past and present, this article examines how the platform has taken part in the shaping of Chinese networked publics and public participation as it has been undergoing three stages of development itself: collective witness, ideological contention, and networks of expertise. The three stages reflect a major transformation of social media and digital culture in China, from the civic-mi…
Striving to be Pure
This paper describes the features of grassroots philanthropy as viewed by the participants. Using content analysis, we show that while the mainstream discourse focuses on efficiency, accountability, and professionalism, the grassroots discourse focuses on the individual aspects, viewing philanthropy as small good deeds, a personal spiritual journey, and something that brings happiness. To avoid making this personal journey impure or less happy, t…
Global and Local
Collective memory is global in scope with global flows of information and transnational mobility of people, upon which global Chinese identities are built. The global connectivity of Weibo has brought Chinese-speaking users together, and the collective efforts to circumvent the Great Firewall have also allowed the sharing of forbidden or highly censored contents. However, global connectivity has also provided opportunities for the rise of nationa…
Remembering Weibo in China’s Social Transition
This chapter analyzes emerging trends that led Weibo to a new phase, one of them being state control of social media platforms intensifying and gaining in sophistication, another being the rise of competing platforms. It is now much easier for the authorities to directly participate in discussions and shut down undesirable opinions on Weibo, while competition from other platforms has siphoned off a significant portion of Weibo’s user base. As Wei…
Conclusion
This book has captured the era of Weibo when it was considered primarily to be a platform for journalism. To its credit, Weibo has significantly broadened the scope of journalism in China. It has provided many opportunities for journalists, media professionals, and some media outlets to establish their cultural authorities over emerging public events, which is mainly reflected in the way that collective memories of these events are formed and ser…
Past and Present
This chapter mainly examines how the past is made use of in the service of the present in the age of social media. Two types of “past” have been analyzed in relation to the present on Weibo: historical events and the ongoing news events that fade quickly from public attention. Weibo provides a space that invites both elite and grassroots users rewriting and reusing of the remote past. Current news events are also explained in the context of unres…
“Universal Values” and “Chinese Characteristics”
This chapter expands on the three previous chapters’ findings: how the three sets of social tensions orchestrate collective remembering, in the service of Chinese modernity debate. It starts with the Southern Weekend incident, an online and offline protest initiated by journalists, which pushed the modernity debate to the foreground of Weibo. Chinese modernity is a product of revisiting and reusing the sources of the past on a global scale, since…
Weibo and Memory
This chapter provides a detailed analysis of one specific event, a defining moment of Weibo as an event-oriented social media platform that also serves the making of collective memory: a high-speed train accident near Wenzhou in southeast China on July 23, 2011. The analytical framework—three axes of social tension in the dynamics of social media, namely control and resistance, past and present, and global and local—is introduced through a detail…
Control and Resistance
This chapter focuses on how the state control of media and various ways of resistance on Weibo have shaped the meanings of public events, and effectively utilized collective remembering to manipulate public opinion, escalating the contention over remembering and forgetting. This chapter captures the changing hierarchy of cultural authority in interpreting an event and organizing collective remembrance. Personalized narratives of public events, in…
Micro-blogging Memories
This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China
Journalism and mnemonic practices in Chinese social media
This study examines how collective memories of a public event, along with various journalistic practices, take shape in social media as the event develops. By analyzing messages posted during the first 8 days after a 23 July 2011 high-speed train collision accident in China on Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, this study finds three types of mnemonic practices on this platform: online commemoration, memory accumulation, and the fi…
Weibo and the making of Chinese networked publics
Through the analysis of the online discourses about Weibo in the past and present, this article examines how the platform has taken part in the shaping of Chinese networked publics and public participation as it has been undergoing three stages of development itself: collective witness, ideological contention, and networks of expertise. The three stages reflect a major transformation of social media and digital culture in China, from the civic-mi…
Striving to be Pure
This paper describes the features of grassroots philanthropy as viewed by the participants. Using content analysis, we show that while the mainstream discourse focuses on efficiency, accountability, and professionalism, the grassroots discourse focuses on the individual aspects, viewing philanthropy as small good deeds, a personal spiritual journey, and something that brings happiness. To avoid making this personal journey impure or less happy, t…
GitHub as a collaborative curation platform for memory projects of Covid-19 in China
This study looks at online collaborative memory projects on GitHub, all of which started amid China’s war on the then unknown corona virus in early 2020 and curated stories from Chinese language social media, news outlets, and official websites. It finds that GitHub enables a collaborative yet centralized archiving and curation workflow, and each of the three projects present unique ways the COVID-19 memories can be preserved. Three key events – …
Tobacco, nicotine and counter-marketing promotions using Instagram’s branded content tool
Despite attempts at self-regulation, paid partnership posts promoting tobacco and nicotine products are present on Instagram, especially posts promoting venues and events that feature tobacco and nicotine use. Self-regulation of this content shows limited success, suggesting a need for federal oversight and additional counter-marketing in social media settings
Identifying Topics Around Nicotine Gum
Background Nicotine gum products from brands like Lucy and Rogue are relatively new arrivals to the tobacco marketplace. While studies of correlates of nicotine gum use are in their nascent stage, data from social media can be used to stay abreast of user experiences with novel tobacco products. This study leveraged machine learning to identify topics of Twitter posts about nicotine gum from the year 2022.Methods Twitter data was collected using …
Building an analytical framework for tobacco-related information on social media
This study offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing tobacco-related information on social media, emphasizing key issues in policy debates and the presence of conspiracy narratives. This framework can inform the design of interventions for less informed populations and enhance data annotation for machine learning tasks
Tobacco industry influence on breast cancer research, policy and public opinion
The CTR and TI Records are a rich source of documents related to tobacco industry efforts to influence breast cancer research, policy and public opinion away from any aetiologic relationship between tobacco use and breast cancer
Political science (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · China (8 works) · Social media (8 works) · Media studies (7 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)